Well this is an interesting development. The goal of the lockdown to “flatten the curve” in Michigan has now morphed into eliminating a mysterious second-wave of the COVID-19 virus that no-one has actually identified.

The rules are now justified to prevent the appearance of a ghost virus.

With a mysterious and invisible new-phase of the virus to battle, the Michigan stay home lock-down can possibly be extended to infinity.

According to the Detroit Free Press: [Whitmer] said while coronavirus cases and deaths are clearly declining, “we are not out of the woods yet.”

“If we’re going to lower the chance of a second wave and continue to protect our neighbors and loved ones from the spread of this virus, we must continue to do our part by staying safer at home,” she said in a statement first reported by the Free Press. (read more)

See what Comrade Whitmer is doing there? The objective that grants her unilateral control over the lives of all citizens, has morphed to “lowering the chance of a second wave” as the hot new justification legalizing her totalitarian dictates. Slick move.

Demonstrations taking place at the capital at the rate of about 2 a week. Last one was two days ago Free haircuts State police would surround one at a time and issue disturbing the peace tickets to haircutters at 1000 dollars a pop.

Legislatures rescinded the 1976 law she was using for her executive order now she is using a 1948 cold war law. The legislature has sued but courts take time and of course nothing is certain.

Most folks I talked to were convinced she was going to let this expire on the 28, My Vet jumped the gun and reopened Thursday he was broke. Not sure how he will take this news or if he will stay open. This is typical grandstanding for her 6 days out she pulls the plug. When she does let a sector go back there is no notice no chance to prepare.

I hope Joe Biden pics her for a running mate she wont deliver Michigan that is guaranteed.

Just check you are correct the original order was the 76 order that can not go passed 30 days. When the legislature voted to take her to court she rewrote under the 1940s law. Judge l(low level) Dem back up held her 1940 law now it moves through the system BAD law 1976 should have taken prescedent. The rep argument that the 1940s law was for cities and county declarations not statewide.

Yeah she’s a witch we still don’t know what that means she wants control without her EO she can’t enforce mask wearing in stores and small group ratherings. How it effects business operations openings we do t know. Queen of the dead will tell us on. Tuesday so we will have no time to prepare.

Without her EO she would be a voice calling from hell telling us we were all surrounded by the g ashing of teeth.

Federal bailouts allow for continued citizen abuse. If you cut off the money and they have to rely on self generated tax revenue, they would be singing a different tune. More bailout money only enables continued bad behavior.

Expecting the government to always “do something” is exactly the wrong answer. The only person people who can put an end to this are the Michigan voters who put her in office, and others like her for decades. And even if Barr was suddenly possessed of the virtue and will to “do something”, why should he? So the people of Michigan can go right back to voting deep blue, beileving MSM lies, and watching Netflix all day? The people in these deep blue states made their mess. Now if they finally want to do the right thing they can take a stand and fix it. Otherwise they can reap what they’ve sown.

Massive voter fraud in the Detroit area is why we ended up with Wretched Whitmer. The great veteran, John James, a MAGA Republican, was AHEAD in his Senate election bid UNTIL the votes from Detroit came in, pushing the Democrat over the top. There are MANY Patriots in Michigan who did NOT vote Democrat!!

beth, that’s not true. She beat Schuette by 10 points. Our problem was we had a terrible rino governor before her, Synder, and a terrible nominee. The combination of unions and our former governor wrought Halfwhit. We voted for Trump and I believe Michigan will do it again. AS far this lock down goes, people aren’t listening to her and If I owned a business I would I would open it. Time for civil disobedience, police have just as much said they won’t do anything.

I’m not disputing that patriots are everywhere. I’m simply making the point that in all the discussion about government overreach and corruption, it always seems to center on how bad the politicians are and it’s NEVER mentioned how bad the people are who put those politicians in office. The point about voter fraud could be made if it was a one-off situation in a state lacking the long history of deep blue culture, like Virginia. But Michigan, and other states currently having issues with their leftist governments like IL, PA, WA, DE, NJ, and to a lesser extent, CA have all been voting deep blue for decades and decades and there has never been any accountability and I’m tired of it. The point is, this is not new. These states have been sowing these leftist seeds for a long time and now we’re all supposed to be shocked when they finally produce a harvest of tyranny? Sorry, I’m not shocked, nor am I going to give the voters who have been sowing these seeds a pass.

I’m in a blue unfortunate state and I didn’t vote for the dem governor but massive voter fraud did. I suspect some of the others are the same. Overwhelmed by voter fraud which the dems say doesn’t exist.

And if we don’t get something done, there will be another attempt except in the federal election in November. They are so crooked, there is a stench permeating the whole country.

Yes, the problem is evil. Is is hard to imagine a woman less likeable than Gov. Whitmer? But then a lot of Dems come to mind, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Stacey Abrams, the governor of Oregon, Barbara Ferrar (health department Los Angeles), Kamala Harris. they are all despicable. What is it about these women? They seem to have sold their souls.

Both genders carry equal capacity for evil. Let’s not start the crapstorm that is assigning the blame to one or the other.

(*I’m not personally sold in either direction yet, each possibility seems as likely to me as the other)
(**I may get some flack for this one, I realize she’s not everyone’s favorite person. She is, however, gracious and kind, and I personally have no guff with her.)

Blue counties. We used the libraries when I was kid; they purged any such thing back then. Can’t even find Swiss Family Robinson, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn. They sure wouldn’t have Orwell, more’s the pity.

Again- no vote by her legislature. When this happened in WI, it went to court and they won on mainly that point. That the lockdown could not be extended without the support of the legislature. Why isn’t that being done in MI? Also, they could bring up how she is actually in her summer home (in direct violation of her own mandate)..

During WWII Michigan passed into law a very unrestricted emergency powers act, The Emergency Powers act of 1945, I believe. Seems like it was meant to deal with rioting and civil unrest, not disease, though. It was a dumb law to pass and even IF it’s technically legal for her to declare herself dictator for the rest of her term, it’s still immoral. Not saying it’s legal – law that lets the Governor suspend everyone’s Constitutional rights sounds iffy to me.

Sounds like she is coordinating this lockdown with Chinese reporting of a 2nd wave in Jilin province. What’s good for the Goose, is good for the Gander. What if her expectation of the 2nd wave doesn’t happen here? Too clever by half…

These people are so crazy that if one doesn’t appear on it’s own they will release it. Specifically wherever Trump has a rally, not to to hurt any of the rally attendees, just to smear Trump. I don’t think some people can grasp how shady the Left is. They will literally do ANYTHING to get rid of him. I mean, they just destroyed the economy and made 80% of the public lose their minds over a mild respiratory virus.

Sad but foreseeable. Everything I hear ‘we are in this together’ I think NO we are not. Floridians have never been trapped like those in Michigan. What these governors are implementing is soft communism. ‘Do as you are told- rat on your neighbors – imaginary goals that can never be reached – your needs are not as important as the collective majority- sacrifice or you are bad.’

In 1959, Castro cryptically announced he would bring Havana down. And down she went. Havana was the Paris of the Caribbean. Every building was a work of architecture. And now it is in shambles – building lying on the ground in heaps of cement.

A recent NY Post article screams NYC is facing this fate. NYC is dying, the author writes. DeBlasio is a hard core communist. And Cuomo’s family are Castro admirers. Destruction is a genetic characteristic of the RATS. These lefties states are happy to destroy lives and cities. It’s in their DNA. So Michigan and NY are doomed. Another 3 weeks of shutdown and the natives will be eating each other.

Needless to say, the solution is not to let liberals reach positions of power.

People in the suburbs wear their masks like good scared comrades.
I have not seen one mask wearer in the city of Detroit. Bad ass.
Going up North tomorrow. Not sure what to expect.
But the south east suburbs in MI are full of pansies.

On a serious note, this will not go over well with the citizens of MI. Can they expect another extension for a 3rd wave, and then a 4th wave? Can we expect to see MI citizens storming the state capitol to arrest her? This will not end well.

She however is in Northern West Michigan at the family summer home. She conveniently opened that area a week before her 5/28 stay home deadline – go figure. Rumor has it a family get together to celebrate her daughter’s graduation. A radio station in the area reported a car registered to her husband was at the house yesterday.

Gretchen the Terrible has requested to people not run up north for the holiday weekend – but she obviously can. There is video of her at a drive through ChiCom testing site today mask and all. But no one else in the car has one on.

Chris Coumo extends so must she. People are just ignoring her as much as possible. Get-togethers are happening. She decreed retail could open – by appointment. You must know that is simply information gathering for the State.

Dana Nessel conveniently forgot the Lieutenant Governor is a male when she made her pronouncement about 3 women leading the State.

“You’re all in this together”
– Her Excellency Gretchen Whitmer, President for Life, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in America in General and Michigan in Particular

Not here in northern Florida farm country. I’m in retail. Less and less masks here. The county commissioners mandated face masks in all essential businesses a couple of weeks ago. The same essential businesses that didn’t wear masks before that the entire time! Fortunately, the mayor of the small town I work in (until my company lifts its’ lockdown) told the county to “pound sand.” We’ve had a couple of Karens but most folks have been great. They need a little treat back to “normalville” in their day, and we are happy to provide it.

My post did not appear..so ill try again..
There will be a second wave..a suicide wave..one area in cali had a years worth in 4 weeks The mental fabric of our society has been severely bruised with these lockdowns..Trump warned us about this effect the experts ignored it alike Fauci just waking up to it

Driving down to the Baaaayyyy Aarrrrrreeeeaaaaaa Sunday.
That’s another one that drives me nuts.
We just say The Bay, East Bay, South Bay, peninsula, the city, etc.
I left CA to raise my kids, but I’ve got a lot of born and raised CA in me still.
The good kind of CA, not the libtard kind.

I lived in Northern California for about five years and I only called it Frisco when its denizens insisted that I call it “the city,” even though it’s flanked by two other major cities. Don’t expect me to call it “the city,” and I won’t call it Frisco.

Me too. Native Californian (LA area) who has lived here for more than 50 years. I’ve always called San Francisco “Frisco” just to tick off “the Bay Area” locals. Oops! Looks like I did a two-fer there!

Just an FYI, we midwesterners probably wouldn’t even think of calling it Cali and Frisco except that Californians and folks from “the city” make such big deals about it. Normally, we’re polite enough to respect what others want to call themselves, but when Californians correct folks on this point, it never seems to be about how THEY feel. It’s about how yokel non-Californians are. Well, we don’t give a damn about being called yokels, whereas it’s the worst insult ever to precious sophisticated and worldly Californians!

I can almost guarantee you that if Californians stopped peeving about it, “Cali” would magically go away.

Dude. Take a chill pill. In no way was that a dig at “yokels” being a farm boy myself [Antelope Valley, home of Dale Evans]. Just an observation. This is why texting / posting is so inefficient and easily taken out of context.

Thank you..I thought thats what the natives called it..Sadly I’m in the South East..I always thought it was a reference to heat..caliente but..its entirely differentCalifornia: In his popular novel “Las sergas de Esplandián” published in 1510, writer Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo named an imaginary realm California. … The state name also relates to the English word florid, an adjective meaning “strikingly beautiful,” from Latin floridus.
Think how close you’all came to being called florida! maybe we can even things up and called Florida Flo Luisianna Lui 😀

Muchiganers should just skip ahead to the 3rd wave, and prepare by digging their own backyard graves. It looks as if Whitless is determined to keep those who haven’t yet died of Wuhan locked at hime until they commit suicide, murder, or die from illness and disease not addressed because she is trying to scare people from seeking medical help and destroying people’s lives, livelihoods, businesses, and will to live.

All it takes is a tyrannical move by one governor to provide cover for the others to follow.
So how long before a wave of other Stalinist governors follow this psycho’s lead and cite a mythical “second wave” to extend martial law in their own states?
And, second question: How long is all this sh*t allowed to go on before Bill Barr gets off his ass and does something other than give an impressive sounding interview or write a firmly worded letter?

More attention needs to be put on Chicago and IL in general because this BS is exactly what Lightfoot and Pritzker are doing. Lightfoot and Whitmer could be sisters because they are both pretty much saying the same things.

Lightfoot is tripling down about churches and doesn’t want to reopen Chicago until there’s a vaccine that’s proven, treatment. Some of the garbage she’s been spewing lately makes it seem that she wants to destroy Chicago so she can remake it into her SJW utopian dream. We’ll see what happens this weekend. Temps will finally hit the 70’s and 80’s.

Making potentially THOUSANDS walk miles to the beach here tomorrow because the huge state park parking lots and buildings remain closed.
Summer is finally here in Michigan and she’s going to start feeling the heat.

This woman is the face of evil.One can only venture to guess whom she really serves for it is not the good people of MI..I truly believe that our almighty creator is allowing these jackals to expose themselves without any prompting at all so they will be voted out completely.Our job is to also pray for our creator s direct hand of intervention to deal with these ungodly,dishonorable,unrighteous people.We the people must stand together across this great nation of ours and stand up for our rights that God Almighty has given us and not them.The scriptures show that God dealt with leaders thru out the bible very harshly when needed,king herod as an example.Father,we thank you that when we call on you in prayer in the name of your precious son Jesus Christ that you hear us.And when you hear us we know that you answer us.We pray that you restore these states and deliver the people from the oppression of the governors of the states of MI,NY,NJ,IL,PA,CA,NYC,AND LA.And any other state or city in our nation.Father,we thank you that you arise and your enemies are scattered and destroyed.Let them tremble before you,let your warring angelic hosts be unleashed on these states and cities that have this demonic influence and it be destroyed in Jesus name.Let the fire of your holy spirit cleanse this land and your people.We cover our President Donald John Trump and his family and every honorable and righteous man and women in this government with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.We thank you Lord for the victory,in the name above all names ,Jesus Christ,Amen.

Sorta feels like Michigan here in San Antonio. The 25 & 50% occupancy rule (state mandate) must be keeping LOTS of places closed. I guess they can’t make enough money to justify opening. Or maybe they are waiting for some Dem CEO from who-knows-where to give them the green light. All I know is that each day that I go out, I have such high hopes and come home very frustrated each time. The masks are insane. I believe 95% of the public here is wearing them. It enrages me and makes me sad all at the same time. How can people be such wimps and not stand up for themselves? Or so incredibly stupid to not do their own research? One of my “go-to” retail stores had a sign that said they would ask you to leave if you didn’t have on a mask. Same at CVS. I am going to do my best to avoid these asinine businesses!😡😡😡 Then I found out that Governor Abbott signed a contract and gave $295 million to a Contact Tracing company that is currently hiring thousands to track every person possible. I am trying to be positive, but this is wearing me down. Need to spend some time making calls to officials and PRAYING.

Reading about the contract tracing contract a couple of days ago made me sick, WTH, I really don’t care that it was given to the state of Texas and will supply jobs. Sometimes you have to be careful for what you wish for. I agree with your statement completely. Maskers are more so now than ever. I think it is the CDC commercials that run constantly are scaring the crap out of people. Very sad to see, wonder what theses maroons are going to do when it starts getting 100 degrees plus for weeks and their wearing their cutie hot sweaty stinky masks and are unable able to breathe, We went shopping at caballas and home goods. Both recommended masks, not many worn. Went to Panera . The sign said “dining room open”. Standing in line, two of us waiting to order and the server approaches us to let us know we must wear masks. I responded, how are we to dine with a mask on our face?@$. She turned and and walked away, as so did we, right back to the car and drove to tropical smoothie cafe for flatbread Friday $7 special. Not sure I’ll go back to Panera with the display of stupid.

“If we’re going to lower the chance of a second wave and continue to protect our neighbors and loved ones from the spread of this virus, we must continue to do our part by staying safer at home,”

Pardon my french, but that doesn’t even make any f***ing sense! If a 2nd wave actually did come around, the only current way to lessen it’s impact is to have more healthy people catch the virus and develop anti-bodies so that the virus is weakened. If people don’t develop an immunity to this, the 2nd wave will be as bad as the first one.

But this is all BS anyway. If a Governor can suspend constitutional rights based on what “might” happen in the futue, then there are no limits to their power. This has to be struck down by the courts, or else violence is going to be inevitable.

Whitmer’s desperate thirst for power shows the state of this enemy which cannot be allowed to take control. We must defeat these crazies. SD is right,this is going to become more difficult in the Summer. I keep thinking about Pompeo’s statements about our usa governors compromised ratings with China. They have been up our what’s for a long long time. Crush them now or pay a higher price.

I am very concerned with what China in concert with the Dems will unleash a month or so before the election to enforce mail-in ballots and what not. We need to keep travel restriction on China all year long but I feel somebody is going to do some sneaking around to get that second wave in the fall or something else. These people are like cornered rats.

Many are pissed off.
The RHINOS sabotaged our 2018 elections.
Legal pot was on the ballot in MI 3018 election.
Voters came out in droves. Most voted straight Democrat & ushered in a wave of communists. Then there was the usual cheating of Democrats that MI always pulls.
A lot of Republican voters were AWOL doing their annual hunting, not paying attention because they only vote during leap year.
Sooooo a lot of Michiganders are fuming at this point.

Legal pot is one of the stupidest, and therefore most successful, ballot measures in recent history.
Inserting the govt into cannabis is totally backwards, a progressives dream. Enjoy your taxes, slaves.

I tried to escape to Canada today; my wife of 10 years lives there while I reside just north of Detroit. We are near the end of a yearlong journey to get her permanent residency here in the states awaiting only her nonessential fingerprints for a criminal background check. We FaceTime every night; we have been separated since the middle of March. My wife is bipolar and is showing signs of depression from all the bs whirling around. Seeing as we have a long weekend I decided to see if Canada would let me until Monday. I told them I had already had extensive experience with their mental health system and that the last time she had depression she had to damn near kill herself in order to be admitted to the hospital for any kind of help. What did they say? No uh uh. Didn’t matter to them. If I wanted in I had to self quarantine for 14 days in a house other than the one my wife lives in (alone I might add) and my meals were required to be delivered. Guess where I’m writing this from. Not Canada. I was told I’m not allowed in Canada until June 22nd as long as they don’t extend the border closing. Can someone say ‘second wave’? The immigration officer was polite if nothing more and they provided me free passage across the bridge for my return trip to Michigan. Upon my return to US customs I handed the border patrol officer the paperwork I was provided by Canada stating why I was denied entry and explained to him why I tried to cross in the first place. He welcomed me home, shook his head and said this crap is unbelievable.

Welcome to a 90 day free trial of Socialism, how does it feel??
What will be the deciding factor that will determine you no longer need to wear a mask (or gloves) in a public area/store/mall ??
THINK about this……